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Friday, January 25, 2013

A couple weeks ago I had some time to kill and I went into an antique store....... I'm sure many of you can start a conversation the same way :) So I found lots of things to buy. I ended up getting only what I couldn't leave behind.

First, is a vintage airline luggage rack with 4 wheels on the bottom. I saw it and knew it would be perfect to hold fabric in my sewing studio (if it ever gets finished)... So while I am waiting for my sewing space to be done, I'm using it in my family room. I also could use it in my laundry room.

I knew I couldn't get it home by myself, but my son has a truck so I texted him *secretly*, not wanting my husband to get wind just yet. Well wouldn't you know it, my son was out to lunch with my husband when he got my text!! He totally threw me under the bus!

What I have all my yarn in, is an industrial basket. I just love it, looks like a big pasta strainer for commercial use!
I am not sure how I am going to arrange things on it yet. I would like to put all my vintage books on it. I need to decide. I just haven't had time lately.

I also found two vintage orange chairs. The original tag says they are custom made by a company in Minneapolis. The upholstery is in such good shape I am not going to recover them. Besides, I love orange!

The other chair is in my bedroom. They are so comfy. I sit in this one and put my cup of tea on the green table and crochet.

I have a sale going on in my etsy shop www.lollipookiesoap.etsy.com it is going to end on Tuesday, January 29! Coupon code is COLD20 for 20% off!
Have a great weekend! It is so cold here, I am not thinking right. How about you, what's the weather where you live?

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Today I have been married for 20 years. I do not have a lot of photo's from our "wedding" because we went to the courthouse one day and got married. In this old photo (1994), we had been married for 14 months. The boys are 3 and 3 months. This was my first trip to Hawaii to see his family. You never think you'll reach the day when you look at old photos and say..."Wow, look how young we look!" and "Boy we sure were skinny!".

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All the changes! Now our family vacations are only with the girls because our boys are out on their own! It is truly bittersweet.

What is love? The one thing I've learned over 20 years is that love is a choice, not a feeling. An even better description is a conversation from my favorite old movie, the original Yours, Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda (1968). One of the teenage daughters was upset that her boyfriend Larry kept pressuring her to "go farther". She is asking her father for advice. This is what Frank Beardsley says to her as he is helping his pregnant wife get to the hospital to give birth:

~I've got a message for Larry, you tell him this is what it's all about, this is the real happening. You want to know what love really is? Take a look around you, take a good look at your mother, it's giving life that counts. Until your ready for it all the rest of life is just a big fraud. All the crazy haircuts in the world won't keep it turning.
Life isn't the loving, it's the dishes and the orthodontist and the shoe repairman and ground round instead of roast beef and I'll tell you something else, it isn't going to bed with a man that proves your in love with him, it's getting up in the morning and facing the drab, miserable, wonderful, everyday world with him that counts.~

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us RUN with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us FIX OUR EYES ON JESUS, the author and perfector of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:1-2

That, may be my favorite verse of all time. It is always good to remember all God has brought you through. Oh I so easily forget! You know, I still drive around Minnesota and think, wait..... I'm in Minnesota?? I had forgotten all the miracles that God did to get us here. So I read them again, here. I'm so glad I did, because I have been really wondering why we live in this frozen tundra. I've been saying... this weather is not fit for humans! We must be insane to live here! I really, really do not like winter.

But, I'm so very thankful. I have many things to praise God for. This Minnesota life is not perfect but we are blessed to have it. I want to keep my eyes FIXED ON JESUS. I pray God will help me throw off all that hinders and not be entangled in sin. Thank you Lord for all you have done for me!!

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Another year gone. There are things to remember, things I'd like to forget, things I am happy I did. I do not like new years resolutions, but rather, *decisions*. In 2013 I've decided to be adventurous. Being adventurous started for me back in 2006, (or maybe 2002 when we moved to Oregon)...... One day I decided I should take my kids (4 of them at the time) on a road trip. We lived in Oregon and I wanted to drive to San Fransisco. Just me and the kids.

Hubby didn't like the idea but I was set. We did. We just took off one day and drove to California! The kids were 15, 12, 10 and 4. We listened to 80's hair bands all the way down. We stopped at roadside wonders, ice cream shops..... the kids still remember the science museum in San Fran... I didn't have a digital camera back then or I'd show you my pictures. It was a blast and I was hooked.

When Lauren was 12, her and I took a mom/daughter trip to Idaho. The next summer Lauren and I drove to Idaho again to sell Lollibags at a barn show. We got chocolate shakes at every meal.

This is the morning we left for our first Idaho adventure.

I promised Portia we would go on our own adventure this summer as soon as school is out. I have a state in mind...... I am very excited! I love adventures, our greatest adventure was moving to Oregon. It was a blast, something I'll never, ever regret.